Everyone's talking about the newly-solicited Ms. Marvel 29, specifically the cover. (You can see it here.) Some people like it, some people can't stand it, some people think it's funny. I'm probably in the latter camp more than anything, although I'll say that if I weren't already a Ms. Marvel reader, this cover would not incline me to pick it up because it doesn't seem particularly representative.
A couple of things come to mind. One is that I always find it surprising when people say they won't buy a comic because of the cover. Not the folks who aren't buying it as something of a protest, because I certainly support the whole voting-by-dollar idea. But some folks won't buy a cheesecake-y cover because of the embarrassment factor--wouldn't want to be seen buying it, wouldn't want to be seen reading it. Maybe I'm an irredeemable comic geek, or maybe I just don't care that much about the covers of the books I read, but I've never seen a cover yet that would keep me from buying it if the insides were good, or that would keep me from reading it in public. (Not that I read comics in public much, since they come to my house in a nice box. But, you know, back in the old days. :))
The other is that, although there is a definite doofiness to it, this is in fact the most I've liked a Ms. Marvel cover in a long time. You want to know why? Because you can actually see her eyes! Just about every other cover has featured her with those phenomenally creepy blank eyes in the mask. So just the presence of an iris and pupil are enough to make me happy.
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